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POLITICO

EU to limit access to social media before age of 15

New “EU KIDS Act” would require TikTok and Instagram to create safer accounts for younger users.

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access to certain online content or services.  Governments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly adopting these restrictive measures in the name of protecting children online. But in practice, these systems create dangerous new forms of surveill

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A newbie's guide to self-hosting: GoToSocial part 1 (installation and set-up)

A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocial

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W Social: a Broken Ghost Town?

W Social has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.

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W Social - Elena Rossini

A series of articles about the controversial social network W Social, a for profit company set up by Swedish entrepreneurs, who openly admitted they want to help train European AI models with their users' data (amongst other things).

Kind of cool to see Ursula von der Leyen warming up the audience for our W launch tomorrow. 😉 Posted between her G7 meetings on Instagram (today). Perfect timing. | Ingmar Rentzhog

Kind of cool to see Ursula von der Leyen warming up the audience for our W launch tomorrow. 😉 Posted between her G7 meetings on Instagram (today). Perfect timing.

Elena Rossini 🌈: "My experience of the #fediverse : Year 1 (2023):…" - Mastodon

YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!

YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.

Open Source Conference Luxembourg :: pretalx

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Agenda – Open Source Conference Luxembourg

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is w for winning?

A playful, comparison of W Social’s size against the staff numbers of EU institutions (data via Wikidata).